Capitalism Quotes
This is a page where the critics talk the most. David Harvey, Fidel Castro, Jim Stanford, Michael Parenti and Terry Eagleton lead, so much of what is here is argument from the left. The sourced material is more varied. G. K. Chesterton, in The Utopia of Usurers (1917), warns that the community the capitalists are constructing will be complete and absolute. Bertrand Russell, in 1963, says he dislikes communism because it is undemocratic and capitalism because it favours exploitation. Malcolm X, in 1965, argues that you cannot have capitalism without racism.
The one flagged entry is “Fascism is capitalism in decay,” credited to Lenin and marked misattributed.
Most quoted on capitalism:
Capitalism—and I say it with such gusto—capitalism is so obsolete that it is dying by itself.
People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? We're fucked, that's what.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell.
Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.